ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO by
IP SIN YING JOYCE Application to MARCH FALL 2015
TABLE OF CONTENT
STUDIO 1-14
01 MOTION &SPACE SUPERSHELTER
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ARCH1025 Introduction to Architectural Design, Fall 2011 Tutor Miho Hirabayashi Site Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
02 ACTION, PROCESS & CULTURE RE-IMAGINING THE RURAL
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ARCH 1026 Architecture Design 1, Spring 2012 Tutor John Lin Site Conghua Village, China
03 EDGE, NATURE & EROSION RECLAIMATION OF NATURE: MARINE LABORATORY & EDUCATION CENTER
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ARCH2048 Architectural Design 3, Spring 2013 Tutor Joshua Bolchover Site Sau Kei Wan, Hong Kong
04 GROUNDING & BUILDING
LANDING BUILDING, BUILDING LANDS: REDEFINING THE GROUND
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ARCH 3046 Architectural Design 5, Spring 2014 Tutor Olivier Ottevaere Site Chongqing, China
WORKING 15 TEACHING 16
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MOTION &SPACE SUPERSHELTER
ARCH1025 Introduction to Architectural Design, Fall 2011 collaboration with Alice Chan Cheuk Man Tutor Miho Hirabayashi Site Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
This project explore possibilities to inhabit the density of Hong Kong. It is a direct confrontation between the body and the city. The specific space was enacted and documented. We documented the way we approached the site and chose the sudden rised platform in order to explore the jumping action with haste, contraction and expansion. Space is the sum of time, movement and action. It is the confrontation between the body and the physical enviornment that creates a space.
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1:1 Drawing Study We would like to focus on the change of body shape and orientations throughout the movement. Therefore we outline the body in motion and found numerous overlapping. The specific motion is analysed throught different aspects. The project came through process of exploration on wood detail treatment. The layering effect creates an asymmetrical sense of gravity which confronts the sudden datum difference. The railing became a pivot to support the thrust.
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ACTION, PROCESS &CULTURE 01
RE-IMAGINING THE RURAL
Traditional mud-brick house with courtyards
ARCH 1026 Architecture Design 1, Spring 2012 Tutor John Lin Site Conghua Village, China
Architecture comes from culture. The project began with extensive documentation of a traditional Chinese rural village under the pressure of urbanization. Tradtional life-style along with the mud-brick houses are rapidly broken down to give way for ‘modern’ generic concrete houses. Through reviewing the implications of urbanization, the project reached another stage in which new ideas were put forward in existing settings. The aim was to turn a general house type subtlely to an architectural prototype through the exploration of bottom-up freedom of inhabitiation. It is the process to put forward a simple idea into a traditional context that is of most importance. The outcome is a subtle one. Concrete as a material extensively used in modern history is employed to explore the idea of transformation between solid and void.
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concrete mould
foam & wood model
wax model
The project started with a simple verb: ‘To Spread’. It leads to an architectural idea to keep the quantity of mass while its quality is ever changing. The idea is tested out through several casting experiments. 4
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1:25 Sectional Model The wood mould become the trace of the traditional site while concrete as an statement embedded. The consecutive section becomes a prototype for a traditional life. Concrete as a material extensively used in modern history is employed to explore the idea of transformation between solid and void. The idea of transformation is the main catalyst to the idea of consecutive sections. Architecture is created out of a simple statement. The rule of transformation is scaleless. However, when the idea is developed and employed, it started to address larger conditions of the village. The project starts to combine general geometrical idea subtlely with informal occupations to produce an articulated space as a new prototype. Wax model is cast to investigate solid-void relationships.
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EDGE, NATURE &EROSION 02
RECLAIMATION OF NATURE: MARINE LABORATORY & EDUCATION CENTER
ARCH2048 Architectural Design 3, Spring 2013 Tutor Joshua Bolchover Site Sau Kei Wan, Hong Kong
The site is located at the periphery of East Hong Kong Island facing Kowloon East along the end of Victorial Harbour. The site is featured with its complex combination of programmes which along the coast are schools, a Chinese Temple, Wholesale Fish Market, Museum of Coastal Defense and a mint. Towards the mountain are large industrial and commercial buildings embedded in the hundred-year old Village which is currently a squatter area. New public housing areas are distributed mainly on the west. The shoreline had been changed and reshaped for a few times due to the demolition of large scale fishing and mining villages. It is the outermost part of the city and one that borders nature in the form of the harbor and the mountain. the interaction between nature and humans - shown in the fisherman’s village and mining quarries in the past and the slums in the present -changes the edge of Shau Kei Wan, making it a periphery with a dynamic edge instead of static ones like many other industrial “periphery” areas of the city.
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Coastline 1992 -present
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Coastline 1980 1971
Coastline 1971
Mountain line 1971 Mountain line 1980
Time & Changing Edges Unique conditions occur within the pheriphery of Shau Kei Wan, where nature is defined by two everchanging edges - the mountain line and the coastline. The dynamics of these edges, through time, produces distinct urban environments. Such edges also marks the ambigious existance of the squatter area, where nature and artifact becomes indistinguishable.
Newly-built structure Pre-existing structure Demolished structure
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Experiment with ICE + WAX The experiements are performed to explore the possibilities to create natural dynamic boundaries. Working hand in hand with the form, the design started to deal with the datum. The building is gradually pushed down into the ground so that the end of it slopes down into the water. Elements related to time are also incoporated in terms of tidal movements and natural inhabitations (artificial reefs). The building itself is becoming an active habitat towards the sea. Nature in the form of water and light, human in the form of circulation erode the building.
0.0 m high tide low tide
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GROUNDING &BUILDING
ARCH 3046 Architectural Design 5, Spring 2014 Tutor Olivier Ottevaere Site Chongqing, China
LANDING BUILDING, BUILDING LANDS: REDEFINING THE GROUND Being rapidly urbanized, the city is heavily investing in infrastructures in order to accommodate its growing 30 million inhabitants, mostly local but a growing percentage of immigrants from other provinces. The site is located at the cojunction of Yangtze River and Jialing River. It consists of a seminal social housing estate comprising of various typologies (Tower, mid-rise and terrace housing), organized around a central public space. The project aims to replace the series of towers with a 21,000 sqm housing program that forms a main part of the semi-private community. It is an important stage to address the ambiguous datum on which complex mode of inhabitations takes place. Two sides of the towers are addressed as a result of the big contrast between the old villages and urbanized housing complex.
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Adaptations on site In order to inhabit and maintain efficiency on the extreme site conditions, multi-ground situations are created as a consequence, to create, differentiate or connect spaces. The series of tower contains the first air corridor in Chongqing which serves the 10 storeys up and 10 storeys down while there is no lift.
Conditions on the Edges Two contrasting edges along the site are addressed and became the driver of the project. It faces the low-rise vernacular village on one side. This side is considered topographical. On the other side, a semi-enclosed residential compound consists of several mega-blocks and an elevated walk-way. This side is considered infrastructural.
Tower Typhology Mid-rise Typology Terrace Typology
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36 m (9-12 storeys)
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Surrounding Typologies Air Corridor
INDOOR WALKWAY OPEN TERRACE
ROOM
WALKWAY
WALKWAY
BALCONY
WALKWAY
WALKWAY
ROOM
OPEN TERRACE
STAIRS
WALKWAY
WALKWAY
STAIRS
ROOF
SHOP
WALKWAY WALKWAY
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Concept Development Edge conditions were challenged through longitudinal transformation responding to the multi-ground conditions on the two sides of the site. The specific transformation is beyond formal change but a typological one. The sectional concept is emphasized in the process. The long configuration of the site and the existing site context leads to the question of how to allow co-existance of different types of living. Through reconstructing the abstract mass, garden, terraces and balconies were defined. The ground is opened and articulated for public use. Experience on different sides are completely different. The intension is to create physical tensions between the slope and the changing ground. Studio Duplex Duplex Private Single Duplex
Service Core
Duplex
Community
Triplex
Balcony Circulating level Balcony
Garden
Common Area
Terrace
Balcony
Studio Single Duplex Duplex Duplex
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Side of living
Two Faces On one side, it is facing an authentic community while the other side faces a private courtyard. One of the sides is considered communal while the other side is enclosed and relatively private. From one end, it is dominated by flatness and openness and the spaces are gradually transforming to a vertical configuration. Units are also arranged under this principle, with single flats and studio at one end, triplex on the other end. The combinations of units create the consecutive series of sections.
Side of circulation Balcony Balcony Public level Balcony
Windws
Doors External Windows balustrade
Indoor balustrade
Section with Tower Typology
Massing Concept
Initiation
Rebuild
Core and Shear Wall
External staircase
Section with Terrace Typology
Public Penetration
Circulation
Units and Cores 13
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Sectional profiles
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Connection between profiles and both sides of the site Programming of the public ground along the site
Concept Development
1:50 Sectional Model Living Units
Core and circulations
Edge conditions were challenged through longitudinal transformation responding to the multi-ground conditions on the two sides of the site. The specific transformation is beyond formal change but a typological one. The sectional concept is emphasized in the process.
The ground is opened and articulated for public use. Experience on different sides are completely different. The intension is to create physical tensions between the slope and the changing ground. 14
WORKING
Rural Urban Framework (RUF), Hong Kong www.rufwork.org position Project Management and Research 08/2014-current
This project is worked out through close communications with local villagers and contractors. Without funding from charities, villagers self-funded the project and had held a lot of expectations. The project has gone through a lot of tension between traditional spatial conceptions and architectural ideas. The design is ever-changing and uncertain while we learnt to communicate with our ‘clients’. The project demonstrates the process when urbanization collides with traditional conceptions. Project management, model making and research: Conghua Village Community Center in collaboration with Johnny Cullinan under construction
Drawing by Johnny Cullinan
RUF is the research and design collaborative between Joshua Bolchover and John Lin. The objective of their work is to engage in the rural-urban transformation of China through built projects, research, exhibitions and writing. It operates as a non-for-profit and collaborate with charities, private donors, Chinese Governmental Bureaus, and Universities. The work is conducted within the Faculty of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong. RUF aims to make architecture that actively contributes to the future transformation of the areas in which they are located. It also aims to make architecture that influences policy makers in their approach to the design of schools, community facilities and other public buildings. Moreover, to find new models of rural development that enables the social, economic and spatial evolution of villages that resists the overwhelming process of urbanization.
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TEACHING Workshop: Taipei Rules!, Shih Chien University, Taipei position Assistant Lecturer workshop leader John Lin in collaboration with Long Zuo in progress 12/2014
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1. Discussion with students in studio 2. Projects evaluation 3. Projects gathered and evaluated as a ‘neighborhood’. 4. Grid of urban Taipei is set up in the scale of 1:20
Taipei Rules is an investigation of the generic 6 story construction ubiquitous to Taipei. This walkup typology is governed by loose building codes but gradually altered through individual transformation, renovation and even illegal construction. Taking inspiration from the generic city, we will invent New-Rules, based on observations of existing Non-Rules. Students will document unique moments of inspired design in these common neighborhoods and apply these ideas as new guidelines for design. The goal is to translate bottom-up processes into top-down processes. To transform specific moments into general rules. To conceive of the concrete urban experience through abstract code. It is an experiment in urbanism, linking the scale of the detail to the scale of urban regulation. We propose an approach towards designing the city, balancing the need for rules with desire for diversity; a proposition for a city based on the common good.
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